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"We sell in another 33 markets, and with all of them, and our local market, we could cushion US losses."

It recently received approval to sell in Australia too.

But the couple decided to sell in 2021 after finding it "traumatic".

"Our target was to be able to produce affordable electric cars here to sell in Europe," explains Pierre Andrieux, director of the Douai plant, arguing that automated processes "will enable us to do that profitably".

City would sanction a loan, although they'd prefer to sell in order to get Grealish's wages off the books and recoup part of the £100m fee they shelled out.